SEND glossary

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• J-P
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A-C

Academy

A state-funded school in England that is directly funded by the Department for Education, through the Education Funding Agency. Academies are self-governing and independent of local authority control. AFC Agenda for Change, NHS Salary Structure for NHS-funded posts.

AFN

Additional Family Needs.

AP

Alternative Provision.

Area for Priority Action (APA) 1 Workstream (WS)

Workstream Meeting for Area for Priority Action 1 - see Governance Structure on Slide 5​    - may want to amend this after on Friday’s discussion SEND Programme Stakeholder Register.xlsx.

Area for Priority Action (APA) 2 Workstream (WS)

Workstream Meeting for Area for Priority Action 2 - see Governance Structure on Slide 5​   - may want to amend this after on Friday’s discussion SEND Programme Stakeholder Register.xlsx.

APDR

Assess, Plan, Do, Review.

ASCH

Adult Social Care and Health.

BI

Business Information. BRAG / BRAG on a page – Blue, Red, Amber, and Green traffic light system to assessing progress/completion of actions.

Cafcass

Children and Family Court. Advisory and Support Service.

CAMHS

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

CDC 

Council for Disabled Children, improvement partner for the Nottinghamshire SEND Improvement Programme.

CEO

Chief Executive Officer.

CEx Assurance Meeting

Assurance Meeting between the Chief Executives of the Integrated Care Board and Nottinghamshire County Council with the Independent Chair of the SEND Partnership Improvement Board​ see Governance Structure on Slide 5 SEND Programme Stakeholder Register.xlsx.

CFA

Children Family Act.

CLT

Corporate Leadership Team of Nottinghamshire County Council (Chief Execs /Corporate Directors).

COMF

Contain Outbreak Management COVID Fund.

CoP

Code of Practice.

Co-production

Is an approach where service users including parents and carers work together in an equal way, sharing influence, skills, and experience to design, deliver and monitor services. Co-production acknowledges that service users have knowledge and experience that can be used to help make services better, not only for themselves but for other people who need them. Co-production means that service users are involved in planning and designing services from the very beginning.  

CPD

Continuing Professional Development.                                                        

CQC

Care Quality Commission.

CSC

Children’s Social Care.

C&F

Children and Families.

C&YP/ CYP

Children and Young People.  

D-I

DCO

Designated Clinical Offer.  

DCS

Director of Children’s Services. 

Delivery Plan

A delivery plan should outline how priorities / outcomes will be achieved.  It should include the activities/ milestones, dates and who is responsible for delivering the priority or outcome.  

DFE

Department for Education.

DSG

Dedicated school’s grant.

EHC

Education, Health, and Care.  

EHCNA

Education, Health Care Needs Assessment.

EHCP

Education, Health, and Care Plan.

ELT

Extended Leadership Team at Nottinghamshire County Council.

EP

Educational Psychologist.

EPS

Educational Psychology Service.

EXEC Group 

SEND Executive Leadership Group see Governance Structure SEND Programme Stakeholder Register.xlsx.

FE

Further Education.

FIS

Family Information Service.

FLT

Flex Learning Team.

FNF

Family Network Funding.

FTE

Full-Time Equivalent​ (see also WTE).

GCSE

General Certificate of Secondary Education.

GLD

Good Level of Development.

GP

General Practitioner.

GPRCC

GP Repository for Clinical Care.

Graduated Approach

A model of action   and intervention in early education settings, schools, and colleges to help children and young people who have special educational needs. The approach recognises that there is a continuum of special educational needs and that, where necessary, increasing specialist expertise should be brought to bear on the difficulties that a child or young person may be experiencing.

Health

Primary care, Secondary (acute) Care, Tertiary care and Community Care Providers. 

HCP

Healthy Child Programme.

HELAC

Health Looked After Children.

HI

Hearing Impairment.

HLN

High level Needs.

HNB

High Needs Block Budget(part of the DSG).

HMCI

His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills.

HV

Health Visitor.

ICB

Integrated Care Board.

ICDS 

Integrated Children’s Disability Service.

ICS

Integrated Care System.

IDACI

Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index.

ICDS

Integrated Children’s Disability Service.

IEP

Individual Education Plan.

IHCP

Individual Health Care Plan.

ILACS

Inspection of Local Authority Children’s Services.

ILEAP

Inclusive Leisure Education Activity.

Inclusion/ inclusive education

Education that includes everyone, with non-disabled and Disabled people (including those with “special educational needs”) learning together in mainstream schools, colleges, and universities.

IPBS

Intensive Positive Behaviour Support Project.

ISP

Independent Specialist Provision.

IST

Intensive Support Team.

J-P

JSNA

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.

KPI

Key Performance Indicator(s).

KS

Key Stage i.e Key Stage 2 (KS2).

LA

Local Authority.

LAC

Looked After Children.

LD

Learning Disability.

LGA

Local Government Association.

LO

Local Offer.

Local Offer

Local authorities in England are required to set out in their Local Offer information about provision they expect to be available across education, health and social care for children and young people in their area who have SEN or are disabled, including those who do not have Education, Health, and Care (EHC) plans. Local authorities must consult locally on what provision the Local Offer should contain.

LTP

Local Transformation Plan.

MAC

Maintain, Amend or Cease in relation to an annual review of an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).

MASH

Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub.

MAT

Multi Agency Trust.

MEG

Multi-Agency Panel (Health)

MIS

Maximising Independence Service.

MIS

Management Information System.

NBS

Neurodevelopmental Behaviour Support Service.

NCC

Nottinghamshire County Council.

NDTI

National Development Team for Inclusion.

Local Area

Nottinghamshire.

NEET

Not in Education, Employment or Training.

NHS

National Health Service.

NHSE

National Health Service England.

NPCF

Nottingham Parent Carer Forum.

OFSTED

Office for Standards in Education.  

ORS

Outcome Rating Scale.

OT

Occupational Therapy.

PACT

Paediatric Autism Communication Therapy.

PAIG

Partnership Assurance & Improvement Group.

PAP

Priority Action Plan​.

Partnership Improvement Board 

SEND Partnership Improvement Board meeting see Governance Structure SEND Programme Stakeholder Register.xlsx.

P/C

Parents and Carers.

PCF

Parent Carer Forum.

PEP

Personal Education Plan.

PfA(T)

Preparation for Adulthood (team).

PID

Project Initiation Document.

PIP

Partnership Improvement Plan.

PT

Services Physiotherapy.

PVI

Private, Voluntary, and Independent.

Q-Y

QA

Quality Assurance.

QoL

Quality of Life.

Q1,2,3 and 4

Quarter 1,2,3 and 4.

RAG

Red, Amber, Green Rating.

RISE

Research and Improvement for SEND Excellence.

RWM

Reading, Writing and Maths.

SDQ

Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire.

SEF

Self Evaluation Framework.

SEMH

Social, Emotional and Mental Health.

SEN

Special Educational Needs.

SENCO

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator.

SEND

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.

SENDAR

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Assessment and Review Service.

SENDIAS

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information and Advice Service. Locally known as Ask US.

SENS

SEN Support.

SFSS

Schools and Family’s Specialist Services.

SICP

SEND and Inclusion Change Programme.

SLCN

Speech, Language and Communication Need.

SALT

Speech, and Language Therapy.

SMART

Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timely.

SN

School Nurse.

SPG

Strategic Planning Group.

SPA

Single Point of Access.

SRO

Senior Responsible Officer.

SRO

Meeting Informal meetings of the SEND Senior Responsible Officers from the Integrated Care Board and Nottinghamshire County Council.

SRS

Session Rating Scale.

Stakeholders

SEND Programme Stakeholder Register.xlsx.

STS

Specialist Teaching Service.

TA

Teaching Assistant.

TCP Transforming Care Partnership

The Partnership Nottinghamshire’s SEND Partnership spans a broad range of partners, services, and stakeholders. This includes the Integrated Care Board (ICB), Healthcare Providers, education settings (from early years through to FE including mainstream maintained, academies, special schools and independent and Alternative Provision (AP) providers), Local Authority Services, parents and carers and our key stakeholders, children, and young people.  

ToR

Terms of Reference.

VCS

Voluntary Community Services.

WSOA

Written statement of Action.

WTE

Whole Time Equivalent (see also FTE)

YP

Young Person.